Red salute to Comrade Harpal Brar
By: Ranjeet Brar
Thanks so much to all my friends and comrades for your kind and moving words at this difficult time. Forgive me if I don’t answer you all individually now.
Yesterday Ella, Joti, Carlos and I were with Harpal when he passed away peacefully at the home of our cousin - his nephew, Manpreet. He did not suffer any pain, and he was surrounded by love and comradeship.
We attended his cremation the same evening in his home village - Fattanwala, Punjab. The whole village and many people from surrounding towns attended. And we met many members of Harpal’s Punjabi family and contacts from his original life. It is hard to think of him as a horse-riding, crop-raising Punjabi farmer. But those were his roots. Before he journeyed to the metropolis, became a law lecturer, m...